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Smaller air navigation service providers (ANSPs) can raise performance by merging airspace although there comes a point where diminishing returns soon occur, according to an analysis of functional airspace block (FAB) performance by university academics […]

Airspace users planning to fly in the upper airspace between Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden can now do so irrespective of airspace boundaries meaning optimised routings, fuel savings and reduced greenhouse gas […]

Isavia has now implemented the fourth of seven steps in the Borealis Alliance Free Route Airspace (FRA) programme, completing the Icelandic provider’s FRA project. The Borealis Alliance is a collaboration of nine air navigation service […]

Russian air navigation service provider State ATM Corporation is to develop proposals for the introduction of flexible use of airspace and free routing. A February 1 meeting was attended by representatives from across the nation included […]

LPS SR, the air navigation service provider of Slovakia, has opened its airspace for free route operations. The December 6 launch sees the ATC provider join the SEEN FRA (South East Europe Night Free Route Airspace) initiative […]

ENAV, the Italian air navigation service provider, will now allow all air traffic to plan a direct route through its airspace without referring to the traditional route network above 9,000 metres. This innovative procedure – […]

The Borealis Alliance of air navigation service providers (ANSPs) said it is one step closer to offering full Free Route Airspace (FRA) across the airspace managed by its nine members after new successful implementations by […]

The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has successfully introduced the extension of Shannon’s Free Route Airspace (FRA) into Shannon’s lower airspace. This builds on the success of FRA, which has been operational since 2009 in the […]

Kazaeronavigatsia is targeting the development of Performance Based Navigation (PBN) to allow more flexible use of its airspace. According to Azat Bekturov, general director of the air navigation service provider who was speaking at a […]